Sharon J. Nieter Burgmayer is a Professor of Chemistry and Dean of Graduate Studies, Bryn Mawr College. She earned her B.S. in Chemistry and French at the Heidelberg College in 1979, and completed her Ph.D. studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1984. She was a Postdoctoral Research Chemist at Exxon Research & Engineering Company (1984–1986), and she got an Assistant Professor of Chemistry position at the Bryn Mawr College in 1986. She was a Visiting Professor at the University of Arizona (1999–2000). Research in her lab involves two areas of bioinorganic chemistry. One project is focused on modeling the catalytic site of the molybdenum enzymes. A second project involves the study of ruthenium complexes that bind and can damage DNA.

Martin L. Kirk is a Distinguished Professor of the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, The University of New Mexico. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry in 1985 at the West Virginia University, and completed his Ph.D. studies in Chemistry at the University of North Carolina in 1990. He is a Member of the Faculty of 1000Prime, Bioinorganic Section, an Advisory Board Member of the Center for High Technology Materials and a Member of the American Chemical Society. He won the NM EPSCoR Mentoring Award from National Science Foundation in 2018. His research interests include Metallobiochemistry; Molecular Electronics and Quantum Information Processing; Multispin Interactions in Ground and Excited States.